Monday, September 25, 2017

Well I, Sweet William The Scot, got to catch you up on what happened with the baby birds we acquired by buying a bird house at Lowe's and getting down the road only to find out the house was occupied with babies. If you remember we tried to get the store to take them back with no luck.

Sitting on my new driveway and thinking this sure looks different.

The first one to fly off was Flappy just as Lee was taking this picture but sadly his life ended that day. We had one of those sideways sheet rains and Lee saw him trying to make it back to the nest but by the time she got to him the rain had washed him down to the drain and he had taken in to much water.

We had two for the next several weeks. Little, on the left, was always singing but sadly his singing stopped one hour before he died. Lee had him in her hand he kept stretching like he had a tummy ache then he died. He never got his fledgling feathers.

Now we had only Spikey. We knew he was lonely so we kept him with us all the time. If we went out on the porch he sat with us. If I was looking out the door he was sitting with me looking out. Well we had him for over a month then he flew away.

But he still comes back. Some evenings when we are sitting on the porch he comes in and sits on the basket handle. He has never gotten the ability to make a good landing. He flies then runs as he lands sometimes running into things. We don't see his species around here much. We have noticed the hummingbirds have befriended him and he sits with them but cannot keep up with them flying. We worry what he will do when winter comes. He eats the seeds off of our cone plants we notice. He never leaves for more than a day or two.

Spikey has followed us in the door a couple of times. So when Lee saw a birdcage out for the garbage last week she stopped and put it in the car. If he has a hard time he can stay with us this winter.

Our prayer for him is that he can find some of his kind who could teach him what he needs to know to survive and not be lonely.

But he will always have us.

Our tall Phlox had beautiful heads this year.

We had Petunias in pink, purple and blue this year that got really big and grew out of the bed.

Our Elephant Ear (Colocasia) were just starting here. They got to be over five feet tall.

Our Needle and Thread plants all had flowers, we would see Spikey sitting on them when they were in bloom.

Our Knock Out Roses really took off in the Spring.

We have lost over $100 in flowers in having a new cement driveway poured.

Will has had a hard Summer but seems to be improving. The vet is of the thought his white spots and two stone hard lymph nodes and malaise could have been the result of an insect like a poison spider bite.

Friday, July 21, 2017

Nessa lives in Nevada where they say "What Happens in Vegas Stays In Vegas".

Well Nessa and her Mom were reading a book All Things Bright and Beautiful by

James Herriot a vet in Yorkshire, England. They e-mailed me to tell me the book said the cows all got white spots around their eyes and took copper supplements that made the spots go away. Her Mom said maybe I need to see a cow doctor?

I am taking my supplements now which have copper but we think it is going to take awhile for them to work.

But finally we heard of something that kind of relates to my polka dots.

Nessa is soaking in a tub because she has itchies.

You know of a good cow doctor?

Lee has been busy baking and decorating a wedding cake for a friend.

Her first husband died after many years and they had ran off to get married so she never had a wedding cake.

This weekend she will have her cake for her second wedding.

Lee said to say don't take cake decorating classes because it can end up with you doing this for friends.

Lee was doing more work on Ancestry last week and came across this picture in a box of old photos. That wood wagon was pulled by the farm dog Presto and then Timmy. The wagon was her fathers when he was a kid, Jimmy was like her favorite cousin but over the years they lost touch.

I, Sweet William The Scot, had my birthday at the beginning of July now

Monday, July 10, 2017

So far Lee has spent over $900 trying to figure out just what is causing my white perfectly round dime size dots. Well we still don't know!!

Our vet said the biopsy report was far from conclusive. "That they left the barn door not only open but the back of the barn was gone". They failed to address why my skin has lost it pigment. They said it was probably Alopecia Areata. But the kicker is I have one spot on the pad of my foot where dogs have no fur cells. I have fur just very fine white fur not like Scottie fur.

Lee talked to a Veterinary Nutritionists.

Veterinary nutritionists must first be accepted into an accredited veterinary college to complete their Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree.

After completing their DVM and becoming a licensed practitioner, a vet is able to begin the path to board certification in the specialty field of nutrition.

In order to be eligible to take the board certification exam in the specialty of nutrition, a veterinarian must fulfill all prerequisites. The candidate must have completed at least 3 years of training under the supervision of a board certified nutrition diplomate and submit three detailed case study reports for evaluation.The 3 years of training must consist of at least 1 year of internship or clinical experience and 2 more years of residency (consisting of a combination of teaching, research, and clinical practice of veterinary nutrition).After passing the comprehensive board certification exam administered by the American College of Veterinary Nutrition (ACVN), a veterinarian will be granted diplomate status in the specialty of nutrition. According to the American Veterinary Medical Association there were 71 ACVN diplomates in the 2014 veterinary specialty census.Oh and they don't recommend the rotisserie chicken that we have found so many bloggers fond of. They are filled with food additives substances added to food to preserve flavor or enhance its taste, appearance etc.The Veterinary Nutritionists says for some dogs not enough copper and Vitamin D are in our foods. Vitamin D comes from the sun but with a long haired dark black fur dog they get very little sunlight to the skin. Since it is only fat soluble to much is dangerous. Copper is just something most of the industry does not think about as it comes from nuts, seeds, lentils, oysters. These things help our skin pigment.Importance of Copper. While too much copper is dangerous, your body needs this mineral to function. It aids in the production of myelin, collagen and melanin. Which I am not producing now.So Lee is getting me a compounded pill just for my weight that has those two things.

So for now the best they can give us is that I have a shortage of these things and my immune system is attacking itself.

Lee is not putting me on Corticosteroids or Topical Immunotherapy for now which has been a suggestion.

In our travels around we have seen some lovely window boxes.

Lee said you might enjoy seeing them instead of me.

I think Lee is very depressed.
Thanks for being a friendTraveling down the road and back again Your heart is true and your a friend of mineSigning OffSweet William The Scot

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

They called Lee and told her not to pick me up till later because it was taken me a long time to wake up. Lee had to come and talk to me to get me to wake up.

Now I am falling over and still in a stupor. Why I even wet myself in my own bed.

Lee cleaned me up and my bed is in the wash.

My eyebrows are all stuck even though Lee has washed my face a dozen times.

Finally it got a little better because I got a little food and water.

I'm Drugged Man!

My ophthalmology examine was fine.

My blood work was perfect.

My basic endocrine panel looks good.

Now we wait ten days for the biopsy to see if it tells us why my Melanocytes which secrete a pigment called melanin which is responsible for giving my skin its color has stopped working. Melanocytes main function though is to shield the nuclei of the keratinocytes (the main cells of the epidermis) and protect them from ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

We might never get an answer and I might become nothing but polka dots.
Perfectly round white dots!
They have never seen perfectly round white dots before.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Wills has developed a spot on his chest about a nickel size, that at this time is believed to be Vitiligo where he has lost all pigment in his skin. This can be very mild to severe even involving his internal organs. A skin scraping test is necessary along with a series of blood tests. We have an appointment with a specialist on June 14th. So I am asking for POTP. Wills is my only family.

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Lee and I went to Lowe's and Lee bought a bird house looks like a wheely house. It was on the top shelf ~ last one left ~ they got the rolling steps to get it down ~ they shook it.

We put it in our cart, got a few other things we needed. Went an checked out. Stopped at Graeter's Ice Cream.

Got five miles down the road heard chirping.

Well the bird house has babies. They sold me an occupied house. Went back to Lowe's they refused to put it back! I told them to just keep our money put the bird house back ~ NO LUCK. Said they do their best to keep birds out of store.

Three babies!

Yep I, Sweet William The Scot, have three wards.

Dam Lee tricked me again I thought she said reward and I came running for a treat instead she told me I had wards to watch the babies. DARN!
Shut your mouths I just fed you all.

We have named them Little, Spikey and Flappy.

I think Spikey would be a great mate for Kismet. Why look at his hair. It takes talent to make it stand up like that. Kismet could be a cougar and date a younger guy I date an older woman, Bella.

Kismet I got my eye on you. Just you wait I'm coming for you! I can fertilize those eggs.

They areBlack-capped chickadeeand the bird rescue society here in Nati told us to let nature take its course which meant to let them die but they said if we wanted to try to keep them alive feed them soaked cat food and boiled eggs with the shell ground for calcium. Right now Nati is going through a Cicada year hundreds of the darn things. They say to squish the white new ones and feed them those also.

I've got my eyes on you!

So wish us luck we are on day three and they are doing great eat, poop, sleep and repeat.

About Me

Scottish Terrier who likes to play. I am educated. I went through puppy to advanced classes and got my AKC Good Citizen Certificate. ~~
KylaScott rewrote my bio for me “I’m a Scottish Terrier who was abandoned by Les Nussman–the weatherman at a local radio station (WKRP) and rescued by wonderful Lee. I’m into old music and contests. By day, I work as a tour guide for the world, showing the visitors greater Cincinnati, Ohio.